Sunday, 29 September 2013

A path is only a
path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that
is what your heart tells you. - Carlos Castaneda

A straight path never leads
anywhere except to the objective. - Andre Gide

All paths lead you to the same
destination. Take time to enjoy the path of your choice. - Sharon k.
Brayfield

Be neither a conformist or a
rebel. Find your own path, and stay on it. - Unknown

Do
not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every path has its puddle. - Unknown

Every
path serves a purpose. - Gene Oliver

If you are on the right path, it
does not mean there will be no obstacles in your path. It just meant you will
definitely reach your goal when you overcome these obstacles. - Unknown

If you can find a path with no
obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere. - Frank A. Clark

If you want to succeed you should
strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
- John D. Rockefeller

On the road to life there are many
paths... some twist, some turn, some dip, some curve. As long as you keep your
focus, your destination is obtainable. - Brenda Good

Pursue
some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and
reverence. - Henry
David Thoreau

The designer of
the path is the guy standing at the end of it. - Amos Jessup

The more zigzag
the way, the deeper the scenery. The winding path approaches the secluded and
peaceful place. - Huang Binhong

The path to our destination is not
always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back.
Maybe it doesn’t matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.
- Barbara Hall

The trodden path is the safest. - Legal
Maxim

Two paths diverged in a forest and
I took the one less travelled. That has made the difference. - Robert Frost

Where the old tracks are lost, new
country is revealed with its wonders. -
Unknown

You will recognize your own path
when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and
imagination you will ever need. - Jerry Gillies

Wednesday, 25 September 2013

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s
thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner
voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become. - Steve Jobs

Everything is subject to change. What is born, must die. See this in
things around you. Notice in your current experience how happiness, sadness,
boredom, all come and go. Watch how the more you cling to something, the harder
it is when it eventually has to disappear. - Unknown

Some of the most comforting words in the universe are ”me too”. That
moment when you find out that your struggle is also someone else’s struggle,
that you’re not alone, and that others have been down the same road. - Unknown

Monday, 23 September 2013

'Jimmy seems to be a very bright boy, but spends too much of his time thinking about girls.'

The mother wrote back the next day:

'If you find a solution, please advise. I have the same problem with his father!'

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Boy: Mum, teacher was asking me today if I have any brothers or sisters who will be coming to school.

Mother: That’s nice of her to take such an interest, dear. What did she say when you told her you are the only child?

Boy: She just said, “Thank goodness!”

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A woman buys a new SIM card, puts it in her phone and decides to surprise her husband who is seated on the couch in the living room. She goes to the kitchen, and calls her husband with the new number: “Hello darling!"

The husband responds in a low tone: “Let me call you back later honey, the dumb lady is in the kitchen."

______Cool Message by a woman: Dear Mother-in-law, "Don't Teach me how 2 handle my children, I'm living with one of yours & he needs a lot of improvement"

Sunday, 22 September 2013

A handful of patience is worth
more than a bushel of brains. - Unknown

All commend patience, but none can
endure to suffer. - Thomas Fuller

An over-taxed
patience gives way to fierce anger. - Publilius Syrus

Beware the fury of a patient man.
- John Dryden

Do not let bad omens overcome you;
be patient and they will pass. - Unknown

Have patience with all things, but
chiefly have patience with yourself. - Saint Francis De Sales

Have patience. All things are
difficult before they become easy. -Saadi

How
poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees. -
William Shakespeare

Learn the art of patience. Apply
discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a
goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience
creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually
leads to success. - Brian Adams

Let him that hath no power of
patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with
himself. - Baltasar Gracian

On the whole, it
is patience which makes the final difference between those who succeed or fail
in all things. All the greatest people have it in an infinite degree, and among
the less, the patient weak ones always conquer the impatient strong. - John
Ruskin

Our patience will achieve more
than our force. - Edmund Burke

Patience does not mean you do not
do things fast; it means you are in control of yourself when things cannot be
done to your speed. - Unknown

Patience
helps us to view imperfections in others more generously to the end that we may
learn to be more wise than they have been. - Neal Maxwell

Patience
is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. -Aristotle

Patience is concentrated strength.
- Unknown

Patience is not the ability to
wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting. - Unknown

Patience is
passion tamed. - Lyman Abbott

Patience is the
ability to put up with people you’d like to put down.- Unknown

Patience is the beginning of the
building of every human endeavour, for patience activates the creative forces
within. And the creative forces go about their work of opening the inner eyes, and
moulding and shaping what the inner eyes see. And then, what was once a
fragment of an idea stands before us, whole and complete. - Unknown

Patience is the best remedy for
every trouble. - Titus Maccius Plautus

Patience is the calm acceptance
that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind. - David G Allen

Patience is the
companion of wisdom. - Saint Augustine

Patience is the greatest of all
virtues. - Cato The Elder

Patience makes lighter what sorrow
may not heal. - Unknown

Patience stoutly
resists pulling up the daisies to see how the roots are doing! - Neal
Maxwell

Regardless of
how much patience we have, we would prefer never to use any of it. - James T. O'Brien

The key to everything is patience.
You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it. - Arnold H.
Glasow

The keys to patience are
acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the
world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.
- Ralph Marston

The practice of patience toward
one another, the overlooking of one another’s defects, and the bearing of one
another’s burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social
activity in the family, in the professions, and in society. - Lawrence G. Lovasik

The real secret of patience is to
find something else to do in the meantime. - Unknown

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will
plod. - William Shakespeare

Saturday, 21 September 2013

A good personal motto to follow in
service work is to serve others with integrity and honesty – and then forget
about others’ opinion of you. - Unknown

Be of service. Whether
you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every
month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of
empowerment than being of service to someone in need. - Gillian Anderson

Be silent as to services you have
rendered, but speak of favours you have received. -Seneca

Lose yourself in generous service
and every day can be a most unusual day, a triumphant day, an abundantly
rewarding day! - William A Ward

The service we render
others is the rent we pay for our room on earth. - Wilfred Grenfell

To give real service you must add
something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity
and integrity. - Douglas Adams

When you have learned to enjoy
servicing customers, an invisible pair of hands will guide you to do a better
job for them, and in the process ensure that you will earn more income. - Unknown

Whoever renders
service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great
return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy. - Jim Rohn

Thursday, 19 September 2013

Looking for
a quote on a particular subject? I have categorized the quotes to make the
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Rain

For after all, the best thing one
can do when it’s raining is to let it rain. - Henry Wadworth
Longfellow

Rain hangs about the place, like a friendly ghost. if it's not
coming down in delicate droplets, then it's in buckets; and if neither, it
tends to lurk suspiciously in the atmosphere. - Barbara Acton-Bond

The good rain, like the bad preacher, does
not know when to leave off. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The rain fell alike
upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore. - William
Somerset Maugham

Wednesday, 18 September 2013

Our different existences are based on one subtle mind. The subtle
mind is the holder of all good and bad karma. When we act/produce/react, it
becomes a form of imprint on our mind which is the subtle mind. Actually the
main goal is to go deeper into our subtle mind. Meditate with the subtle mind,
that is our goal. - Dagyab Rinpoche

If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself.
If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is
dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is
that of your one self-transformation. - Lao
Tzu

In oneself lies the whole world
and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your
hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except
yourself. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

The essence of spiritual practice is your attitude toward others.
When you have a pure, sincere motivation, then you have right attitude toward
others based on kindness, compassion,
love and respect. - Dali Lama

Sunday, 15 September 2013

Do not let the behaviour of others destroy
your inner peace. - Dalai LamaEach one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real
must be unaffected by outside circumstances. -Mahatma Gandhi

Even peace may be purchased at too
high a price. - Benjamin Franklin

Every goal, every action, every
thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or
unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one’s level of peace of mind. - Sydney
Madwed

He is happiest, be he
king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. -Johann Von Goethe

He that would
live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees. - Benjamin
Franklin

If in our daily life we can smile,
if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it.
This is the most basic kind of peace work. - Thich Nhat Hanh

If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people.
It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the
earth. - Anthony de Mello

If peace cannot be
maintained with honour, it is no longer peace. - Lord John Russell

If there is
righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in the character. If there be
beauty in the character, there will be harmony in the home. If there is harmony
in the home, there will be order in the nation. When there is order in the
nation, there will be peace in the world.- Unknown

If there is peace in your mind you will find peace with everybody. If your mind is agitated you will find agitation everywhere. So first find peace within and you will see this inner peace reflected everywhere else. - Papaji

If we are peaceful, if we are
happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our
entire society, will benefit from our peace. - Thich Nhat Hanh

If we are to
live together in peace, we must come to know each other better. - Lyndon Baines
Johnson

If
you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else. - Marvin Gaye

If you let go a little, you will
have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace. If you
let go completely, you will have complete peace. - Unknown

If you think
that peace and happiness are somewhere else and you run after them, you will
never arrive. It is only when you realize that peace and happiness are
available here in the present moment that you will be able to relax. In daily
life, there is so much to do and so little time. You may feel pressured to run
all the time. Just stop! Touch the ground of the present moment deeply, and you
will touch real peace and joy. - Thich Nhat Hahn

Inner peace begins the moment you
choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions. - Unknown

It isn’t enough
to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in
it. One must work at it. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Keep peace in
your heart.- Unknown

Learning to ignore things is one
of the great paths to inner peace. - Robert J. Sawyer

Looking for peace is like looking
for a turtle with a moustache: You will not be able to find it. But when your
heart is ready, peace will come looking for you. - Ajahn Chah

Make peace with your
past so it won’t screw up your present. - Unknown

Many a happiness in life, as many
a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed
by chance. - Maurice Maeterlinck

Never be in a hurry; do everything
quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything
whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. - Saint Francis De Sales

No man should
think that peace comes easily. Peace does not come by merely wanting it, or
shouting for it, or marching down Main Street for it. Peace is built brick by
brick, mortared by the stubborn effort and the total energy and imagination of
able and dedicated men. - Lyndon Baines Johnson

Nothing can bring you peace but
yourself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

One who is at
peace can draw good from everything. - Gerhard Groote

Peace cannot be kept by force. It
can only be achieved by understanding. - Albert Einstein

Peace comes from within. Do not
seek it without. -The Buddha

Peace does not dwell in outward
things, but within the soul. If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in
vain to seek it from outward sources. Nobody can bring you peace but yourself. - Unknown

Peace does not mean being in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It means
to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.- Unknown

Peace has its victories, but it
takes brave men and women to win them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace has never come from dropping
bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more
in a divine manner. - Carlos Santana

Peace is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul.
Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting
peace can come only to peaceful people. - Jawaharlal
Nehru

Peace is not an absence of war; it
is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, and justice. - Baruch Spinoza

Peace is not made at the council
table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men. - Herbert Clark Hoover

Peaceful is the one who is not
concerned about having more or less. Unbound by name and fame he is free from
sorrow, from the world, and mostly from himself. - Rumi

Peace is the result of re-training
your mind to process life as it is rather than as you think it should
be. - Wayne Dyer

Peace is
not the absence of conflict; it is the absence of inner conflict. - Unknown

Peace is not the
product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline,
no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work
of many decisions. - Oscar Arias

Peace is present right here and
now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. Every breath we take, every
step we take, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. The question is
whether or not we are in touch with it. We need only to be awake, alive in the
present moment. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Peace is rarely denied to the
peaceful. - Johann Von Schiller

Peace is when time doesn’t matter
as it passes by. - Maria Schell

Root out the violence in your
life, and learn to live compassionately and mindfully. Seek peace. When you
have peace within, real peace with others is possible. - Thich Naht Hanh

Scarcely is
there any peace so unjust that it is better than even the fairest war. - Desiderius Erasmus

The less you respond to rude, critical, argumentative people, the
more peaceful your life will become. - Unknown

The life of inner peace, being
harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence. - Norman
Vincent Peale

The man who is not at peace with himself cannot be at peace with the
world. - K. Sri
Dhammananda

The practice of peace and
reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions. - Thich
Nhat Hanh

There is no path to peace. Peace is the
path. - Unknown

True peace is not merely the
absence of war, it is the presence of justice. - Jane Addams

Until you make peace with who you
are, you’ll never be content with what you have. - Doris Mortman

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person
who can live at peace with others. - Unknown

We can never
obtain peace in the world if we neglect the inner world and don’t make peace
with ourselves. World peace must develop out of inner peace. - Dalai Lama

We look forward to the time when
the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the
blessings of peace. - William Ewart Gladstone

You’ll never find peace of mind
until you listen to your heart. - George MichaelYour peace is more important than driving
yourself crazy trying to understand why something happened the way it did. Let
it go. - Unknown

Saturday, 14 September 2013

A good word is an easy obligation;
but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing. - John
Tillotson

An inability to
stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. - Walter Bagehot

He who does not know how to be
silent will not know how to speak. - Ausonius

I have often regretted my speech,
never my silence. - Unknown

If you believe the noises of the
world, rather than the silences of your soul, you will be lost. - Neale
Donald Walsch

Keeping silent is one of the
greatest arts of conversation. - Unknown

Nothing is so good for an ignorant
man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant. - Saadi

Of all possible reactions to an
insult, the most skilful and effortless is silence. - Unknown

Silence doesn’t always mean you have nothing to
say. It may mean you realize that words aren’t always necessary. - Hart Ramsey

Silence gives
consent. - Oliver Goldsmith

Silence has a mysterious calming effect, allowing your soul to be at
peace with your thoughts. - Unknown

Silence is a source of great
strength.- Lao Tzu

Silence is a place of great power
and healing. - Unknown

Silence is a true friend who never betrays. - Confucius

Silence is argument carried out by
other means. - Ernesto Che Guevara

Silence is better than unmeaning
words. -Pythagoras

Silence is golden when you can’t
think of a good answer. - Muhammad Ali

Silence is more eloquent than
words. - Thomas Carlyle

Silence is not only golden; it is
seldom misquoted. - Unknown

Silence is not the absence of sound, but the
absence of self. - Anthony de Mello

Silence is one of the hardest
arguments to refute. - Josh Billings

Silence
is sometimes the best answer. - Unknown

Silence is the
great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is
no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come
from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. - Deepak Chopra

Silence is the safest course for
any man to adopt who distrust himself. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Silence is the
safety zone of conversation. - Arnold Glasgow

Silence is the true friend that never betrays. - Confucius

Silence
is the virtue of fools. - Francis Bacon

Silence is
wonderful to listen to. - Thomas Hardy

Silence propagates itself, and the
longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to
say. - Samuel Johnson

Silence, if deliberate, is
artificial and irritating; but silence that is unconscious gives human
companionship without human boredom. - Unknown

Silences make the real
conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is
what counts. - Margaret Lee Runbeck

Soon silence
will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day
he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from
the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. . . . Tooting, howling,
screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his
ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray
vegetation. - Jean Arp

The most
effective answer to an insult is silence. - Unknown

To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man. - Marcel
Marceau

True silence is the rest of the
mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and
refreshment. - William Penn

Friday, 13 September 2013

When you think everything is someone else’s fault, you will suffer a
lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will
learn both peace and joy. - Dalai Lama

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live
so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case you
fail by default. - J.K. Rowling

Successful people realise that they reached their goals by continuously
correcting. We get off course, correct, and get back on course. Ships do it.
Rockets and missiles do it. Correct. Correct. Correct- Unknown

People only send me
flowers when I’m ill, or in a hospital when I’m too distracted to enjoy them.
And how sad that the day I receive the most flowers I won’t even see them. Who
needs flowers after you’re dead?- Unknown

A clean confession, combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when
offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of
repentance. -Mahatma Gandhi

Thursday, 12 September 2013

Reality isn’t
the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they
actually are. - Robert J. Ringer

The paradox of reality is that no
image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind’s eye. - Shana Alexander

The reality of
the other person lies not in what he reveals to you but in what he cannot
reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he
says but rather to what he does not say. - Kahlil Gibran

To think in terms of either
pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality
as it is. - Thich Nhat Hanh

What we perceive
as reality in the so-called outer world is literally a reflection of, and
therefore secondary in importance to, the inner workings of our own
consciousness. - David Gardener

Sunday, 8 September 2013

Aim at perfection in everything,
though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and
persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and
despondency make them give it up as unattainable. - Lord Chesterfield

Have
no fear of perfection – you’ll
never reach it. - Salvador Dali

If you expect perfection from
other people, your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumbling and
complaints. If, on the contrary, you pitch your expectations low, taking folks
as the inefficient creatures which they are, you are frequently surprised by
having them perform better than you had hoped. - Unknown

It is true that
we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle towards it we
shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that,
whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall be rendered
capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best
possible account. - Confucius

Nobody can be perfect unless he
admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect? - Unknown

Perfection does not exist; to
understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is
the most dangerous kind of madness. - Louis Charles Alfred de Musset

Wednesday, 4 September 2013

Spirituality is not something connected with holy books, not
connected with religions. It is something that grows within you if you can
manage a little sense of humour, a little sense of playfulness. - Osho

The Universe is not punishing you or blessing you. The Universe is
responding to the vibrational attitude that you are emitting. - Abraham Hicks

The Heart is the only Reality. The mind is only a transient phase.
To remain as one’s Self is to enter the Heart. - Sri Ramana Maharshi

Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present
experience. It isn’t more complicated than that. Practice Mindfulness. - Unknown

Sit quietly and tune into your self. You will find that within that
calm and peace, there are many answers. - Unknown

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in
the roots. - Rumi

As I unclutter my life, I free myself to answer the callings of my
soul. - Dr. Wayne Dyer